Linguistic Variation in the Ancrene Wisse, Katherine Group and Wooing Group : Essays Celebrating the Completion of the Parallel Text Edition

2 Revised edition

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Book Series Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature

ISBN-10 3631802536

ISBN-13 9783631802533

Edition 2 Revised edition

Publisher Peter Lang AG

Imprint Peter Lang AG

Country of Manufacture DE

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 14th, 2019

Print length 202 Pages

Weight 337 grams

Product Classification: Historical & comparative linguistics

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This collection of articles deals with the manuscripts, textual transmission, punctuation, spelling, grammar and vocabulary of the «Ancrene Wisse», the Katherine Group and the Wooing Group. A close comparison based on parallel texts substantiates detailed findings about linguistic variation and the role of scribes.

"Among thirteenth-century English devotional writings, the Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group and the Wooing Group are central to debate about a putative standardised English, the AB Language. This book consists of articles investigating the manuscripts,textual transmission, punctuation, spelling, grammar and vocabulary of the Ancrene Wisse Group. All the contributors use data taken from the parallel manuscript editions published by the Tokyo Manuscript Reading Group. The articles exemplify ways of using such parallel text editions for linguistic and literary analysis. They present new findings on lexical and morphological divergences, which taken together cast light on scribal variation in texts transmitted in manuscript"--

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